Word Meanings - TRANSCONTINENTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Extending or going across a continent; as, a transcontinental railroad or journey.
Related words: (words related to TRANSCONTINENTAL)
- GOAL
Fries. walu staff, stick, rod, Goth. walus, Icel. völr a round stick; 1. The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end. - GOROON SHELL
A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell . - GOOD-HUMORED
Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. See Good- natured. - GOOSEFOOT
A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed. - GOLD; GOLDE; GOOLDE
An old English name of some yellow flower, -- the marigold , according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps the turnsole. - GORGONIACEA
One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or c Note: The axis is commonly horny, but it may be solid and stony , as in the red coral of commerce, - GOOSERY
1. A place for keeping geese. 2. The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness. The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor. Milton. - JOURNEYWORK
Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade. - GOLDFINNY
One of two or more species of European labroid fishes ; -- called also goldsinny, and goldney. - GODCHILD
One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather. - GOPHER
1. One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidæ; -- called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan. Note: The name was originally given by French settlers to - GONOCALYX
The bell of a sessile gonozooid. - GOAF
That part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings; -- called also gob . To work the goaf or gob, to remove the pillars of mineral matter previously left to support the roof, and replace - GORGEOUS
Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff, - CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British - GONIMOUS
Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia or gonimia, as that part of a lichen which contains the green or chlorophyll-bearing cells. - GONOPHORE
A sexual zooid produced as a medusoid bud upon a hydroid, sometimes becoming a free hydromedusa, sometimes remaining attached. See Hydroidea, and Illusts. of Athecata, Campanularian, and Gonosome. - GONGORISM
An affected elegance or euphuism of style, for which the Spanish poet Gongora y Argote , among others of his time, was noted. Gongorism, that curious disease of euphuism, that broke out simultaneously in Italy, England, and Spain. The Critic. The - GOLDYLOCKS
A plant of several species of the genus Chrysocoma; -- so called from the tufts of yellow flowers which terminate the stems; also, the Ranunculus auricomus, a kind of buttercup. - GOD
Good. Chaucer. - MYSTAGOGY
The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries. - RUBIGO
same as Rust, n., 2. - STEATOPYGOUS
Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton. - SYRINGOCOELE
The central canal of the spinal cord. B. G. Wilder. - ISAGOGE
An introduction. Harris. - AGOUARA
The crab-eating raccoon , found in the tropical parts of America. - BERGOMASK
A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness. - FULGOR
Dazzling brightness; splendor. Sir T. Browne. - OSTROGOTHIC
Of or pertaining to the Ostrogoths. - PYGOBRANCHIA
A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiæ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris. - YELLOW-GOLDS
A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. B. Jonson. - PHYSIOGONY
The birth of nature. Coleridge. - EPIPTERYGOID
Situated upon or above the pterygoid bone. -- n.